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This 10 page paper explores explanations for this puzzling range of disorders. Capgras syndrome, Fregoli delusion, reduplicative paramnesis, and Cotard's syndrome are each discussed among other variations. Psychological, physiological and neurological explanations are discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the determination of the nature of the delusion ("Delusions," 1999). A significant example of this is what is known as delusional misidentification (1999). Here, there are many causes
of the phenomenon which includes, but is not limited to schizophrenia, alcohol abuse, mood disorders, and dementia (1999). Misidentification sometimes occurs, like delusional disorders, without other medical or
psychiatric symptoms ("Delusions," 1999). The most significant form of misidentification is what is deemed the Capgras syndrome (1999). The syndrome signifies a belief that certain people have been replaced by
identical duplicates (Harvard Mental Health Letter, 1986 as cited in "Delusions," 1999). Someone with Capgras may believe that his wife had gone away and she had been replaced by someone
who looks exactly like her; the deluded individual may also believe that she was even replaced by a robot (1999). Such things do occur in fiction such as
in The Stepford Wives, a film about a community that murdered all its women and replaced them with robot look alikes. The personalities of the replacements were however different. Their
personalities were lost. Other works of fiction also denote a replacement of individuals. In The X-Files series sometimes people are replaced by alien look alikes. In yet other works, people
have surgery or wear masks to look like another. The film Face Off demonstrates how someone could be mistaken for another individual. Yet, these are works of science fiction. The
reality is that people cannot truly replicate another individual, although sometimes identical twins can fool even parents or spouses. Although many people have fleeting thoughts that another may not really
be their friend, or spouse or parent, the person under the spell of a delusion is serious in their belief. And while it seems as if the idea is far
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